Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980708090211.1239D-100000@einstein.london.sco.com>By author: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel> Hello guys,> > Just a suggestion: would it not be nice to have a 0xAA55 signature at the> end of the bootsector (NOT an MBR!) of the Linux root partition so that> commercial bootloaders (e.g. the one that comes with UnixWare 7) could> load it just as easily as they load dos/windows stuff instead of giving> "Missing operating system" error?>

You're missing that you don't just need a signature... you need a BOOTLOADER there too!!

> Btw, just to confirm, am I right in assuming that LILO does put AA55> signature at the end of bootsector if installed in a partition instead of> an MBR?

Yes it does; as does it if you install it in an MBR (the MBR is just aboot sector in itself that happens to also contain a partition table.)